A desire to outwardly express the mission of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center's (SERC) Charles McC. Mathias Laboratory Expansion in Edgewater, Md., has been honored with the 2016 Metal Architecture Design Award for Sustainable Design.The environmental research arm of the Smithsonian Institution, SERC is dedicated to the study of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. Completed in 2015, the 94,000-square-foot Mathias Laboratory was expanded and renovated to be the Smithsonian's most environmentally sustainable building to date, achieving LEED Platinum status.
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